Splug has offered a few tips on tanking the Lich King, which are worth noting. Interesting question there about Unholy possibly being useful, and on death drip the phase 1 [ more...]
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A writer on EJ did enough tests to confirm the length of [Bone Shield] internal cooldown, for each charge to be used up: 2 seconds. It might be slightly lower [ more...] February 8th, 2010 | 18 comments |
 From: Death Knight tanking specifically |  Tags: 3.3, bone shield, icd, internal cooldown, spec, tank, unholy I wanted to share a snippet on this finding I made whilst trying to verify the value of [Improved Icy Talons] in my previous analysis. I thought at first Kahorie’s had [ more...] January 31st, 2010 | 9 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: haste, improved icy talons, Rune Strike, windfury I put together a quick spreadsheet to work out what damage reduction you get from [Unbreakable Armor]. In my gear, approximately, I’d take 13.5% less damage when it’s up than [ more...] January 28th, 2010 | 50 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: armour, damage reduction, ua, unbreakable armour DK tanks can feel squishy compared to block-tanks in 5-mans. You can offset a lot of this through skill. We have a pretty impressive arsenal to use. Here are some important [ more...] January 14th, 2010 | 13 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, Playing better, new to tanking | Tags: ams, aoe, heroics, ibf, tank, training Dual-wield frost tanking threat is effected by the weapon speed. My weapons. I have two: Black Icicle, and I also have two Rimefang’s Claw. They’re not hard to get, just takes [ more...] January 13th, 2010 | 18 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: dual wield, dw, frost, gear, main hand, off hand, runeforge, stats, tank, threat, weapon speed, weapons Frost dual-wield tanking is very popular now. Six months ago, many people were violently against the idea. A year ago, it was so bad I put up a sticky on [ more...] January 11th, 2010 | 23 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose equipment | Tags: dual wield, dw, expertise, frost, parry haste, parrygib, warrior Just wanted you to know, I checked Unholy vs Frost and Blood in Kahorie’s sim, and the TPS gap I’d seen in earlier simulations has been closed somewhat. This is [ more...] January 7th, 2010 | 13 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, comparison, threat, unholy Improved Icy Talons This is a really important buff, providing melee haste like a talented windfury totem. Either you provide it or a shaman does. In a 25-man raid, you should [ more...] January 2nd, 2010 | 35 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, Tanking, choose spec | Tags: frost series, howling blast, iit, improved icy talons, one disease, talents, tank, two disease, windfury For Frost tanks, what threat values do some of these talents provide? chill of the grave: +1.6% with Icecrown dodge-nerf radiance, 1.8% outside it (tested by going from 1 to 2 points) January 1st, 2010 | 11 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: acclimation, chilblains, chill of the grave, comparison, frost, frost series, kahorie, runic power mastery, scent of blood, sim, talents, tank, threat, tps Blood is so flexible. You can spec into survival, single or AOE threat. What’s the threat you gain from a heavy threat build compared to one for survival? Survival Here’s a really [ more...] January 1st, 2010 | 13 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, blood, comparison, kahorie, minmax, sim, spec, survival, tank, threat Blizzard have given a unequivocal statement that Frost is designed for dual-wielding. That two-handed Frost will not, and is not intended to, give the same DPS (for raiding) as dual-wield [ more...] December 26th, 2009 | 17 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: 3.3, blizzard, dps, dual wield, dw, frost, raid, tank, tps I have verified some of the threat comparisons using the latest version of Kahorie’s sim. It’s had a few tweaks so I wanted to see if that refinement had led [ more...] December 24th, 2009 | 18 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, Tanking, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, blood, comparison, frost, spec, talents, tank, threat, tps, unholy For raids, I’d go with blood or frost. Here are my posts with much more detail. Patch 3.3 Feb 22, 2010 update: Unholy should not be [ more...] December 9th, 2009 | 14 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, best, blood, frost, raid, spec, tank, unholy Blood remains the best single-target raid tank spec. For blood, nothing changed in 3.3 from 3.22, so you don’t really need to respec. You might go into will of the [ more...] December 9th, 2009 | 32 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, blood, heroic, raid, spec, tank, threat Frost tanking has always been and will remain in 3.3 a very solid choice. You can tank with either dual-wield or a two-handed weapon and both are viable. DW is [ more...] November 15th, 2009 | 61 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, frost, howling blast, spec, tank, tps, unbreakable armour I like warrior tanks, they have so many abilities really they deserve to be called the swiss army knife of tanks. Warriors can intercept and charge, interrupt/silence many ways, cancel [ more...] November 11th, 2009 | 16 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: blood, frost, leadership, lego, tank, tps, unholy, warrior I get a lot of questions like “what’s the rotation for that spec?” Rotation is like Death Knight basics, and since I write on more advanced tanking questions, it’s not [ more...] November 5th, 2009 | 16 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, new to tanking | Tags: dps, frost, glyph, priority, rotation, spec, tank What is the best Death Knight Unholy tank spec in 3.3? I set out to simulate the various talent choices to find the highest threat unholy DK tank build. Below [ more...] November 2nd, 2009 | 43 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose spec | Tags: 3.3, aoe, bone shield, glyph, kahorie, Simulation, spec, tank, tps, unholy Rawr, the multi-faceted simulation tool, has had a developer working on the DK tank module for a while now. It has just been updated to reflect the 3.22 changes also. Rawr [ more...] October 27th, 2009 | 2 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, choose equipment | Tags: 3.22, rawr, Simulation, tank A poster on dk.info was wondering about this hybrid spec, probably best called Dreadplate Blood, 21/41/5. It takes a lot of Frost talents, but then goes into blood for some nice [ more...] October 25th, 2009 | 4 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: 3.22, blood, dreadplate, frost, hybrid, kahorie, Simulation, spec, tank, unholy Blood tanks have so many variations in spec. You can grab talents to emphasise raid buffs or single-target threat or AOE threat. There’s even Will of the Necropolis, which is [ more...] October 13th, 2009 | 23 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: 3.22, blood, spec, tank I’m going to have a single post which lets people download the XML settings files I’ve been using for Kahorie’s DK simulator, which might save some time or let you [ more...] October 2nd, 2009 | Leave a comment |
From: Addons, Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: kahorie, Simulation, tank Oct 9th: patch 3.3 will change unholy again, back to a spec with reaping, epidemic and a traditional deep unholy build. For Unholy in patch 3.3: read my full analysis. The below is [ more...] September 28th, 2009 | 28 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically, Out of date posts | Tags: 3.22, aoe, buffs, epidemic, kahorie, Rune Strike, Simulation, tank, tps, unholy Dec 9th, correct for patch 3.3. Can and should a DK dual-wield as a tank? Patch 3.22 made it possible, with rune strike now being effected by Threat of Thassarian. Patch 3.3 [ more...] September 22nd, 2009 | 93 comments |
From: Death Knight tanking specifically | Tags: 3.22, 3.3, dual wield, dw, expertise, frost, kahorie, Simulation, spec, tank |
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